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What is an engineering manager? Taking the step up
This fulfilling role takes you a step beyond a lead engineer. Find out how to best showcase your skills to land it.
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7 steps to navigate onboarding as a software engineer
Joining a new team can be both exciting and overwhelming
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How to hire the best talent with scalar interviews
Some favor open questions for interviews and others closed questions. But there’s a happy medium: scalar interviews.
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Decoding candidate experiences: A new era in tech hiring
Discover how tech hiring is evolving with insights on candidate experiences, market trends, and empathy-driven practices for creating an inclusive, transparent hiring process.
Editor’s picks
DEI is under threat, can you fight back?
Corporate DEI initiatives may be on life support, but there are steps progressive leaders can take to keep them on track and improve the health of their organizations.
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
A festival of engineering leadership
Essential reading
31 smart questions to ask in a software engineering interview
Interviews are a two-way street, don’t waste the opportunity to ask these smart questions.
On our Hiring playlist
De-coding the technical interview process: Emma Bostian in conversation
What if you had a cheat code for acing technical interviews?
Inclusive hiring is not a checkmark
Inclusion is the foundation of creating a level playing field for employees with all backgrounds to be heard, to be challenged, and to have an impact.
Retaining Your People After the Tech Boom
Discover how to retain talent during staff reductions by leading with empathy, building trust, and understanding employees’ motivators in times of economic and industry change.
What is the role of the engineering manager in the hiring process?
How can time-strapped engineering managers juggle hiring responsibilities alongside their day to day?
A festival of engineering leadership
London • June 16 & 17, 2025
More about Hiring
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Going from staff engineer to engineering manager
This transition can be both exciting and daunting, with engineers having to navigate unfamiliar territory, balancing technical prowess with people management skills.
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Are you ready for pay transparency?
New pay transparency laws are spreading across the globe, how should you prepare?
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What does the end of affirmative action mean for engineering managers?
A landmark US Supreme Court decision on ending affirmative action in education could have massive widespread effects for diversity and inclusion efforts in the corporate world. Here’s what engineering managers need to know.
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What is a staff engineering manager and how can you become one?
Staff engineering manager is a rewarding position that has you cultivating different types of relationships and projects.
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What AI has to offer: Using LLM tools in interviews
AI is changing the face of the tech industry. Learn about the current AI climate, its pros and cons, and how AI tools can help in your company’s interview processes.
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Efficient interviewing techniques
Here are some steps you can take, from the start of the interview process to the end, that can help you make the right hire.
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A diverse career can help you be a better leader
Casting an eye back over her career, Afiya Chohollo reflects on her unique journey to VP of Engineering and the benefits of a varied career path.
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What is a software architect? Someone with an eye on the big picture
As a software architect, you’re going to implement some big ideas – but you can’t lose sight of the details.
Top Hiring videos
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Setting standards for your technical assessments
How to make sure your technical interviews are fair, engaging and indicative of the role
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Scale, Scale, Scale! (Lessons from an engineering recruitment drive)
Jenny Sivapalan presents a set of actionable items that you can own and make a difference in hiring into your team.
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Career Changers: enabling the huge untapped potential in developers from different backgrounds
Marcus Gardiner shares lessons and personal perspectives from walking the path from Graduate to Lead in both Business and Software Engineering, so that your team and organisation can thrive through attracting and developing Career-Switching Tech talent.
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Rubrics cubed: Attempting to quantify the qualitative in the interview process
Shawna Martell and Dan Fike discussed how they created their rubrics and introduced them to their organization, and what they discovered about how the process has affected their hiring outcomes.
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Hiring and onboarding in times of growth
Hiring to grow teams rapidly is different to hiring to replace an engineer. Daniel Burke discusses how to extend the strengths and support the weaknesses of your team whilst thinking about future progression at LeadDev Together on February 1.
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Progression, salary and promotions in your organization
Panelists get together at LeadDev Together to discuss Progression, salary and promotions in your organization.
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Onboarding and retention in your organization
Onboarding and retention in your organization. A panel discussion featuring leaders from GitHub and Doctolib at LeadDev Together.
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Successful onboarding and retention is a team effort
A conversation with Abel Martin on ways to scale successful onboarding & retention actions based on his current adventures at Rhino and his 16 years of experience in the field at LeadDev Together.